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Zoom Into Infinity in the Oculus Rift with Boxplorer2 Fractal Explorer (video)
Fractals are intricate, infinite, and beautiful repeating patterns that are created from an equation. A fractal rendering program called Boxplorer2 recently added support for the Oculus Rift, allowing you to create mesmerizing 3D fractals which you can fall forever into.
Developer Marius...
SteamVR Now Lets You Skin Your Controllers and Base Stations
OK, so perhaps not the most revolutionary of updates, but certainly a fun feature addition to the latest SteamVR build is the ability to customise the look of your SteamVR controllers and, should the mood strike you, your base...
Two Reasons You Will Want to Buy a New Gaming Rig for the Oculus Rift CV1
Here and there I see threads pop up around the web asking what hardware ought to be bought in preparation for the consumer version of the Oculus Rift (also known as the CV1). If you're looking to get top...
Oculus Confirms ‘Guardian’ Virtual Boundary System, Coming in Next SDK Update
Oculus has confirmed work on a VR boundary system which they're calling Guardian. The system will launch this week with the Oculus PC SDK 1.8 update.
While it's relatively easy to keep users safe in seated-VR experience, once you have...
HTC Partnership Aims to Bring Vive to “hundreds of millions” of Internet Café Users
HTC formally debuted the Vive VR headset to Chinese developers at a packed event last Friday in Beijing, China. The event featured speakers from HTC, Valve, and notable developers working with the Vive. One of the announcements to come...
OTOY Demos Lightfield Streaming From the Cloud
Jules Urbach, CEO of OTOY, believes lightfields are the endgame of virtual reality. Essentially a way to digitally record all light reflected from a real or virtual object, lightfields seemingly enable feats of technological magic, from being able to...
‘Job Simulator’ is Exactly as Awesome As This New Trailer Makes it Look
While shooters and adventure games are a natural fit for VR, Owlchemy Labs' Job Simulator is one of the most unique VR titles to date. It's a genre-defying mix of puzzle, humor, and, in a way, exploration, in a form that...
Perception Neuron More Than Doubles Kickstarter Goal for VR Input Suit at $572,000
Perception Neuron, a VR motion input suit by Beijing-based Noitom Technology, took to Kickstarter on August 8th and came to a very successful conclusion yesterday, reeling in nearly $572,000, more than twice the campaign's $250,000 goal. Perception Neuron uses...
‘Final Approach: Pilot Edition’ Lets Oculus Rift Players Take Flight
Final Approach lands for the Oculus Rift with developer Phaser Lock Interactive coming up with a novel solution to the VR platform's current lack of motion controllers, instead of guiding planes into land, they let you fly them.
Phaser Lock Interactive's...
News Bits: HL2VR 1.4 Mod Released, The Best Half-Life 2 Experience Just Got Better
Back in October 2013 Road to VR's Ben Lang described HL2VR, a Half-Life 2 mod specially crafted to make playing in VR as cool as possible, as "The best way to experience Half-Life 2." The new version (1.4) is...
Oculus Lists Official Samsung Gear VR Compatibility for Note 4 Variants
While the Galaxy Note 4 is the only 'one' phone that is compatible with Samsung's Gear VR headset, there's different variations of the phone for different regions. Should you be attempting to import a Gear VR from a country...
DODOcase Expects to Sell 1 Million Google Cardboard VR Kits By Year’s End
Within hours of Google's announcement of Google Cardboard, a radically simple VR smartphone adapter, DODOcase started taking offers for a pre-made version of the kit. DODOcase says they've sold 15,000 of the kits so far and expect to reach...
Acer to Invest $9 Million in Starbreeze to Help Manufacture StarVR Headset
Taiwan-based electronics firm Acer recently announced an investment into game studio Starbreeze equating to the sum of $9M USD, an amount intended to further the manufacture and commercialization of Starbreeze's high-FOV, high resolution StarVR headset.
The investment, which comes on the heels of the news...
CCP Teases New Footage of ‘Project Arena’, a Purported ‘VR eSport’ for Touch and Vive
Project Arena, a prototype game now in development from CCP, was teased today by CCP Games at Fanfest 2016, the company's annual gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland.
We first saw a rudimentary prototype of Project Arena at Fanfest 2015. It was found among a...
What it Feels Like to Roll Through a Virtual World in the Virtusphere
During a recent virtual reality hackathon at OCVR, I was able to try out a crazy contraption called the Virtusphere—essentially a giant acrylic human hamster ball that lets the user feel like they are walking through a virtual world....

















